Volunteer Canada - Benevoles Canada
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 898232343RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,699,706) as filed with the CRA.
Volunteer Canada - Benevoles Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% from government, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Volunteer canada provides national leadership promoting volunteerism in canada. The organization supports volunteerism and civic participation through ongoing program resource development training and national initiatives. Volunteer canada working collaboratively with partners from the charitable and voluntary government and corporate sectors promotes volunteerism to canadians and builds the capacity of the organizations to engage citizens as volunteers. Ongoing programs include national dialogues on volunteerism national volunteer week research employer-supported volunteer programs …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.4M | $38K | — | $259K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $971K | $43K | — | $248K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $882K | $23K | — | $247K |
| 2021 | $1M | $1M | $732K | $47K | — | $230K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $18K | — | $207K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 15 charities:
- The Waltons Trust$290K
- The Samuel Family Foundation$200K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$200K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$150K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$121K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$100K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$75K
- The Counselling Foundation of Canada$60K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,321
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,826
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- V.C. Volunteer Cowichan$150
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$97
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$9
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$881K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lisa Mort-Puland (chair); Jackie Hunt (vice-chair); Don McRae (secretary); Anna Tran (member at large); Rachel Dick (member at large); Gina Jordan (member at large); Alex Medina (member at large); Matthew Erhard (member at large); Ambuj Kumar Laroiya (member at large); Samantha Reusch-Desautels (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Volunteer Canada - Benevoles Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898232343RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.